Oslo lecture: “Hardly getting over it: death, dying, and afterlife in the age of AI”

I’m very pleased to be back at the University of Oslo next month to contribute to the humAIn initiative, a hub for interdisciplinary research and education which focuses on how the humanities can critically and creatively engage with the ideas, stories, and imaginaries of AI.

In “Hardly getting over it: death, dying, and afterlife in the age of AI“, I’ll be talking about posthumous posterity, digital representation, and machine autonomy – connecting Oslo scholars to the foresight work I lead at Oxford’s TORCH Humanities research centre and the Uehiro Oxford Institute for practical ethics.

Memorial

Tales of the times to come: the humanities and scenario planning

“What do the humanities have to offer strategists, policymakers, and decision-takers in the age of the algorithm? As machine intelligence and computational power increase, as we gather ever more data from ever more sources, do the humanities still offer a valuable perspective on times yet to come?”

Over at the website of the Irish Humanities Alliance, Marie Mahon and I have a piece on what our training in the humanities has brought to our work on the IMAJINE project for the future of European regional inequality.